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How should AI systems behave, and who should decide?

OpenAI is opening the black box. Here's who gets to decide how ChatGPT behaves.

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OpenAI is moving toward public input and user customization on AI system behavior—a governance shift that signals how AI labs will balance safety, user autonomy, and stakeholder input as models become mainstream.

The key facts

8 to know
  1. OpenAI committing to increased user customization of AI behavior

  2. Plans for greater public input into AI decision-making

  3. Focus on transparency around ChatGPT behavior shaping

  4. Published Feb 16, 2023—early moment in ChatGPT governance conversation

  5. OpenAI announcing plans for increased user customization of AI behavior

  6. Commitment to greater public input into AI decision-making processes

  7. Focus on clarifying how ChatGPT's values and outputs are shaped

  8. Published Feb 16, 2023 — early in ChatGPT public discourse

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Publisher excerpt: We’re clarifying how ChatGPT’s behavior is shaped and our plans for improving that behavior, allowing more user customization, and getting more public input into our decision-making in these areas.
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